Church of St Mellitus
CHURCH OF ST MELLITUS, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088072
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mellitus
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MELLITUS, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088072
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mellitus
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MELLITUS, CHURCH ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MELLITUS, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Ealing (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 15647 80249
Details
962/0/10066 CHURCH ROAD
05-AUG-02 Hanwell
CHURCH OF ST MELLITUS
II
St Mellitus Church, Hanwell
Anglican parish church. 1909 by Sir Arthur Blomfield & Sons. Brown and red brick exterior with Bath stone dressings, tiled roof.
PLAN: Five-bay nave with aisles oriented north-south, with chancel (the liturgical east end) at north; transept on east (liturgical south) side. Entrance porches at north-east and south-east; vestry at north-east; link to vicarage at north-west.
EXTERIOR: South end (liturgical west) with a tall gabled bell-cote over a two-light lancet window set between buttresses; sloping roof to baptistery to left of gabled porch. East (liturgical south) side with nine paired lancets at clearstorey level; sloping roof over aisle with similar paired lancets, gabled transept to right of porch, with hipped roof vestry to right. North (liturgical east) end with five-light arched window with cinquefoil tracery; small gabled porch below. Triangular clearstorey windows with quatrefoils to chancel, one on (liturgical) south side, three on (liturgical) north side. Single storey link to vestry at north-west corner in front of side chapel, which has a three-light trefoil-headed window and a three-bay west return.
INTERIOR: five-bay nave with side aisles. Arcade of wide cut brick arches carried on stone octagonal piers. Open wooden roof with hammerbeams alternating with braced tie-beams. Chancel with mosaic-laid floor, sedilia and piscina, organ loft, coffered timber ceiling. Triple arcade at south (liturgical west) end with font to centre. Side chapel at north-west (liturgical north-east) corner.
FIXTURES: (liturgical) east window by Christopher Webb, 1930: Christ in Majesty over St Michael and Virgin and Child, Annunciation and St George & the Dragon in upper quatrefoils. Liturgical east window to side chapel with crucifixion (after Perugino) by E. Stanley Watkins, in memory of Scout Owen Harwood d.1917; two-light side window in chapel depicting the Adoration of the Magi. Circular stone font with trefoil-headed arcade carried on six red marble colonnettes with foliate capitals. Plain lectern, pulpit, bench pews.
HISTORY: an imposing brick Gothic design from the prominent late Victorian practice of Sir Arthur Blomfield and Sons. St Mellitus was the first Bishop of London.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489658
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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